Swiftboat Veterans for October Surprises?

I almost never find myself agreeing with Howard Kurtz, but we were both scratching our heads and asking the same question today, "Can John Kerry really be this dumb?" Or is he simply hard-wired to communicate on college campuses as the anti-draft, anti-war political opportunist he was in the 60s? Have his people told him we have an all-volunteer army these days?